Mr. Tavenner. Were you in the picket line?
Mr. O’Connell. I wasn’t actually in the picket line.
Mr. Tavenner. Did you take part in the picketing?
Mr. O’Connell. I was there and I was encouraging the picket line to be orderly and to make sure that its conduct was correct and so on.
Mr. Tavenner. Were you arrested in connection with a disturbance calculated to break up those hearings?
Mr. O’Connell. I was arrested for disturbing the peace and disorderly conduct, but I was acquitted on that charge.
Mr. Tavenner. So you were keenly interested in the Canwell hearings?
Mr. O’Connell. I was decidedly opposed to the Canwell committee. As a matter of fact, of the 7 members of the committee, I think we eliminated 6 of them in the following elections.
Mr. Tavenner. You knew very well that Tom Rabbitt had been identified over and over again in the course of those hearings as a member of the Communist Party?
Mr. O’Connell. I, of course, was not inside the meetings. I mean, I didn’t hear a lot of the testimony.